Wu Zetian's eyes showed a girlish soft light, and he said softly: "That year was November of the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Taizong heard that I was unparalleled in appearance, so he wanted to include me in the palace and be named a five-grade talent, but my mother was worried that I would enter the deep palace and suffer, and I couldn't stop crying, I smiled and said: 'Mother, I am about to serve the Holy Son of Heaven, and I will be full of blessings in the future, why do you still cry and cry, like a child?' Girl, the harem is intrigued, competing for favor, none of them are fuel-efficient lamps, you are only fourteen years old, how can you fight those?" I said, "Mother, you can rest assured, they are not my opponents when they are tied up in two or three." My mother said, 'You crazy girl, you don't know how thick the sky is, you will suffer a loss in the future, don't go home and cry your nose.' ’”

An Xiaoyu said: "I didn't see it, you have been quite powerful since you were a child." ”

Wu Zetian said: "In our family, we all call me Wu Daring, after I entered the palace, Taizong saw that I was charming and moving, and gave me the name 'Wu Mei', and everyone called me Wu Meiniang." Once, Taizong got a famous horse called Lion Skull, which was so tall and strong that no one could tame it. So I said to Taizong: 'If a concubine can make it, she must have three things, one iron whip, two iron stalks, and three daggers. If he refuses to accept the blow of the iron whip, he will be struck with a dagger, and if he refuses, his throat will be cut off with a dagger. Taizong admired what I said, that is, he handed over the lion skull to me to tame. I took the iron whip and whipped it so hard that the lion's skin and flesh were opened, and then I struck the lion's head so hard that the lion was dying and could not stand up on the ground. ”

An Xiaoyu said: "Later, you killed the lion with a dagger?"

Wu Zetian said: "Taizong ordered me to tame the lion skull, how can I kill it." ”

An Xiaoyu said: "Then how did you do it?"

Wu Zetian's eyes showed a gleam, and said: "I killed a chicken with a dagger, and then took the dagger and said to the lion: 'Lion Cong, if you are disobedient, I will kill you!' As a result, guess what, the lion skull, with a sigh, got up, rubbed my head again and again, and flattered me. ”

An Xiaoyu said: "You are really a crazy woman, everyone kills chickens to show monkeys, but you kill chickens to show horses." ”

Wu Zetian said: "Whether it is a human or an animal, they are afraid to worship the strong, as long as you are stronger than it, it will obey you, if you are weak, it will bully you." ”

An Xiaoyu said: "So you will bully Li Zhi for the rest of your life." ”

Wu Zetian said: "Li Zhi is a good person, and I love him too." ”

An Xiaoyu said: "Did you know each other before?"

Wu Zetian's eyes flashed with the shyness of a girl, and said: "In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, when I was nineteen years old, the crown prince Li Chengqian was deposed, and Li Zhi, the king of Jin, was made the crown prince. Once Taizong was sick, I served Taizong by the side, and after I fed Taizong the medicine, Li Zhi gently squeezed my hand when he took the medicine bowl, and almost scared my soul away. ”

An Xiaoyu said: "My eldest nephew is bold. ”

Wu Zetian asked, "Who is your eldest nephew?"

An Xiaoyu hurriedly diverted the topic and said, "Oh, it's okay, I just remembered a relative, you continued." ”

Wu Zetian did not doubt it, and continued: "Zhenguan twenty-three years, I was twenty-five years old, Taizong died, I followed the example of the Tang harem, and entered the Ganye Temple to cut my hair as a nun. As a result, Li Zhi forgot about me, and I waited hard in the Ganye Temple, accompanied by the ancient Buddha of the green lantern all day long. In May of the first year of Yonghui, when Li Zhi entered the Ganye Temple on the anniversary of Taizong's death, he met me unexpectedly, and the two recognized each other and told each other about their feelings of longing after parting. All this was seen by Queen Wang, who had no children and fell out of favor, so she took the initiative to ask Li Zhi to include me in the palace, in an attempt to hit her rival Xiao Shufei. Li Zhi had already had this intention and immediately agreed. In May of the second year of Yonghui, when I was twenty-seven years old, Tang Gaozong's filial piety clothes were full, and I entered the palace again and was awarded the second rank Zhaoyi. ”

An Xiaoyu said: "Does Li Zhi lack maternal love? The emperors of all people set up teenage women as concubines, you are twenty-seven years old, and you are still a nun, the nominal mother concubine, and he actually took you into the palace again." ”

Wu Zetian said: "It may be that Li Zhi's personality is too weak, and I have a strong personality, so I am attracted to each other." ”

An Xiaoyu said: "What happened later?"

Wu Zetian said: "After I became the queen, I locked up Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu first, and then killed them. ”

An Xiaoyu said: "Isn't Queen Wang very good to you? If it wasn't for Queen Wang persuading Li Zhi in Ganye Temple, he wouldn't dare to take you into the palace." ”

Wu Zetian sneered: "How can there be so many good people in the harem, it's just to use each other, today they are allies, tomorrow they may be enemies, at the beginning, Queen Wang got me into the palace in order to contain Concubine Xiao Shu, Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, these two were by Li Zhi's side before I entered the palace, and they can be regarded as bad wives, and after Li Zhi ascended the throne, the two naturally became queens and concubines. Although Queen Wang is a queen, she has never given birth to a son and a half daughter to the royal family, but although Concubine Xiao Shufei's status is low, her stomach is really powerful, and the two of them have always checked and balanced each other, until my appearance, completely compared the two of them, and later they found out that I was very favored by Li Zhi, and Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shufei joined forces, made trouble for me everywhere, spread rumors and trouble in front of Li Zhi, and finally wanted to curse me to death. ”

"In June of the sixth year of Yonghui, Empress Wang and her mother Liu found sorcerers, and they tried to curse Wu Zhaoyi to death with the art of disgust. Later, this matter reached the ears of the emperor, and under the anger of Tang Gaozong, he listened to it and drove his mother Liu out of the palace, and also wanted to promote Wu Zhaoyi from Zhaoyi to a concubine Chen, the four ladies of the harem of the Tang Dynasty did not have the title of Concubine Chen, and the original four ladies were full, Tang Gaozong created the title of Concubine Chen for the sake of the Wu family, but was opposed by the prime minister Han Ying and Laiji, and finally did not succeed. nor did he depose the king and queen.

Soon, Li Yifu, Xu Jingzong, Cui Yixuan, Yuan Gongyu and other ministers of the Zhongshu House successively submitted to Tang Gaozong a request for the establishment of Wu Zhaoyi.

I gave birth to my eldest daughter at the age of 30, and only a month after the birth of my eldest daughter, the Queen came to visit me

Mother and daughter, the queen walked back, I strangled my daughter to death with my own hands, and blamed the queen Wang, Gaozong beat the queen into the cold palace in a fit of anger. ”

Speaking of this, Wu Zetian left tears on his face.

An Xiaoyu sneered: "You are really a ruthless woman, you actually strangled your daughter to death with your own hands, since you don't love her, why are you crying now?"

Wu Zetian said: "How can there be a mother who doesn't love her children? At that time of crisis, if I didn't use this strategy, maybe one day I would be calculated by Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, and be beaten into the cold palace, and our mother and daughter would also die, so it was better to just fight." ”

An Xiao was speechless and said, "What happened to you?"

Wu Zetian said: "At that time, the old ministers in the court headed by the eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang were powerful, and the power of Tang Gaozong was greatly restricted. Fortunately, Tang Gaozong tried to reinvigorate the imperial power by 'abolishing Wang Liwu' and attacking the power of the old ministers. As a result, I became Gojong's political 'comrade-in-arms'. Tang Gaozong rewarded Li Yifu, the first to explicitly support the 'abolition of Wang Liwu', and many middle-level officials saw that it was profitable to support 'abolish Wang Liwu', so they turned to support Liwu Zetian, forming a 'pro-martial faction', breaking the original monolithic situation. During the discussion in the imperial court, Li Tao, one of the meritorious elders, said that "Your Majesty's family affairs, why bother asking outsiders" touched Gaozong's heart, and also made others speechless. I was in Yonghui for six years, and when I was thirty-one years old, Gaozong made me empress. ”

"My son Li Hong became the crown prince, I gave advice to Gaozong, adopted the strategy of first easy and then difficult, successively deposed Chu Suiliang, Han Yuan, Lai Ji, and finally got rid of the eldest grandson Wuji, dealt a heavy blow to the Guanlong nobles, and the situation of weak imperial power since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties was changed, and since then Gaozong has realized the centralization of monarchy. Queen Wang was abolished and sent to the cold palace, Concubine Xiao Shu was a brainless concubine, easy to deal with, and it didn't take long for her to be sent into the cold palace. ”

An Xiaoyu said: "Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu have already been beaten into the cold palace, why do you still want to kill them?"

Wu Zetian said: "One day husband and wife hundred days, Li Zhi is soft, I miss them for a long time, so I went to see them secretly, they begged Li Zhi to let them out, Li Zhi softened, and mentioned to me about the release, how can I let the tiger return to the mountain, the mountain does not turn around, how can the enemy not get together, so I can only poison the two of them, beat each of them with a hundred boards, and then cut off their hands and feet, and put them in a vat full of wine, called 'bone drunk punishment'!, I just want the bones of these two sluts, drunk to death in wine." I also exiled Queen Wang's mother, brother, and Xiao Liangdi's brother to Lingwai, not only that, but also deprived these two of their surnames, changed Queen Wang's surname to Python, and Xiao Liangdi's surname to Xiao's, ironically these two people are like snakes and scorpions. ”

An Xiaoyu said: "You are really a vicious woman, you can have a fight with Lu Pheasant." ”

Wu Zetian said: "The arrow is on the string, and it has to be sent." At that time, Queen Wang was just wailing in pain, Concubine Xiao Shu knew that I was a cat idiot, and I would accept it

The collection of all kinds of famous cats is the best, raised in the palace, and the cat is pampered. So before Concubine Xiao Shu died, she cursed me fiercely: 'Ah Wu is cunning, and even this! May he give birth to me as a cat and Ah Wu as a mouse, and choke his throat for life. ’”

An Xiaoyu said: "This Concubine Xiao Shufei is also a ruthless character. ”

Wu Zetian said: "I know their personalities deeply, otherwise I wouldn't have hit them by any means." After the death of Queen Wang and Xiao Liangdi, I was very frightened, and even hallucinated, seeing the ghosts of Xiao Liangdi and Queen Wang, I invited a wizard to exorcise ghosts, I was afraid of those living enemies, afraid that they would use some crooked ways to murder me, and from then on I ordered that no cats should be kept in the palace. ”

(End of this chapter) I want to talk about "The Supreme Demon Saint of the Other World" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~